How Hard Do Moles Dig? | ScienceTake

How Hard Do Moles Dig? | ScienceTake | The New York Times

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The terrors of the lawn look as though they are swimming as they tunnel, but they put a lot of force behind their shovel-like paws.
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@Lopezprieto 7 жыл бұрын

I caught one of these guys - a little one - when I was out fishing, and saw something black with silky fur in the grass, one of the cutest animals ever, period.

@jr640 10 ай бұрын

it really is adorable

@ChrisRedfield-- 7 жыл бұрын

I once seen this mole push a road sign with concrete footing out of the ground, it was quite amazing!

@BadThrusher 3 ай бұрын

Yes because every piece of construction in America is dam flimsy

@Fish-cj4ub 3 ай бұрын

@@BadThrusher but imagine the pure weight

@armageddonready4071 2 ай бұрын

@@BadThrushernot every piece of construction. Many people build their own homes, and those are usually bomb proof type of overbuilds.

@glenadlin 7 жыл бұрын

Waiter! There's a mole in my cous cous

@Brocollipy 2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@BuddyLe38386 6 жыл бұрын

I love KZfaq late at night. I go from space videos, to gold prospecting videos to watching how moles dig.

@kushclarkkent6669 Жыл бұрын

Same lmao

@theblackbaron4119 6 жыл бұрын

They are really adorable little, black fuzzy blind tubes... That mess with my lawn. But I still love them.

@dryocampa 8 жыл бұрын

I just got a black Syrian hamster, and my dad keeps calling it a mole... now I know why.

@rhiannonstubbs28 7 жыл бұрын

izzAbizz poor hammy

@fankdaggot8961 7 жыл бұрын

Did it shout Allahu akbar at you yet?

@ankurpandey7452 7 жыл бұрын

no reply means he has been suicide bombed

@mikec4308 7 жыл бұрын

is it for your bum

@potashion1357 6 жыл бұрын

I got a dwarf hamster and my dad calls it a mouse

@yassinkhaled590 6 жыл бұрын

Moles are so cute and adorable they dont hurt you and they look like a cute little mouse

@compressorhead02 7 жыл бұрын

Why did they not give us a straight awnser, this video should have been called "studies on moles" because I never really figured out how hard moles dig

@KingBarney 6 жыл бұрын

Ashtonmo_2002 40 times their body weight

@mysticforge369 7 жыл бұрын

Up next, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

@jebaited2449 6 жыл бұрын

How much wood would chuck norris chuck

@chaffycaesar8026 6 жыл бұрын

The Map Survival as much wood as a wood chuck could chuck if a wood chuck cold chuck wood.

@siranonymous1433 6 жыл бұрын

LOL

@lauren9581 4 жыл бұрын

nah we already know, a wood chuck could chuck as much wood as a wood chuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood

@buttstick7357 3 жыл бұрын

how many cracked buttcracks can a cracked buttcrack crack if a cracked buttcrack can crack cracked buttcracks

@nes3036 7 жыл бұрын

my ex trying to dig up stuff from the past

@ELbabotas1 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry

@pandaserthepanda1514 6 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhh Snap! *Guy in the background* Take that karen!

@LONDONSD1 6 жыл бұрын

Osiris _ lol

@yorusuyasoul69420 6 жыл бұрын

Ooooof

@GianniEndo 6 жыл бұрын

Osiris _ underrated comment. Take this W🔥

@sergio7248 7 жыл бұрын

It felt like the video needed to be much longer... Such an interesting topic MOREEEEEE!!

@mimivo8162 10 жыл бұрын

Moles r adorable

@milanszklenar5399 7 жыл бұрын

GO CHECK OUR GARDEN AT SUMMER MOLES SHOULD BE KILLED HERE

@soriyen 7 жыл бұрын

You could also use live traps or do your best to capture them alive and relocate to a forest of some sort. But if they're proving too elusive to catch then by all means, protect your garden.

@dimkacracker 7 жыл бұрын

check out a naked mole and say that again.

@ragingderpy2006 7 жыл бұрын

NO!! LMAO!!

@c4charles515 7 жыл бұрын

dimkacracker hhahahaahha

@Zainkevlogs 7 жыл бұрын

The way He told the story ........I am in love with Moles

@thunderouscat9030 7 жыл бұрын

i just finished watching a mole escaping now here comes the mole videos coming..

@manus9438 7 жыл бұрын

Know that feeling...

@adrianowerneck6178 7 жыл бұрын

For all metric lovers out there, a mole has a mass of about 88 grams. Multiply it by 10 to get its weight and the result is 0,88N. Now multiply it by 40 to get its strenght and the result is about 35N.

@ElenaKomleva 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@yehaw4411 4 жыл бұрын

I have a pet mole They actually arent bad pets, they are pretty entertaining to watch dig around.

@shouaxiong4168 4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for "Moles", for Chemistry... but it lead me here and this is more interesting. LOL!

@psychxx7146 6 жыл бұрын

That "hummm so good" just killed me haha

@burnedroses93 6 жыл бұрын

These things are so cute!

@lennon005 6 жыл бұрын

"Mmmm, soo good" 🤣🤣😂😂

@MrAntifreezer 2 ай бұрын

I love watching a video about how hard moles dig and then not finding out how hard moles dig!

@rochelimit55555 7 жыл бұрын

I don't know but all of a sudden I have the sudden urge to eat earthworms.

@Ouski 7 жыл бұрын

No measurement numbers?

@LookAtThisRock 2 ай бұрын

Just goes to show you, even moles don't like couscous. They chose the worm over that stuff. 😅

@stepanf6471 5 жыл бұрын

I am really concerned if the scientist got a written permission from the mole allowing them to x-ray it for extended period of time.

@lovelyjubbly34 4 ай бұрын

It's a mole, it's benign.

@vladnickul 6 жыл бұрын

So nice when somebody else appreciates good protein noodles

@jochem1986 6 жыл бұрын

This is about how exciting nature gets in the Netherlands.

@MattMovies599 Жыл бұрын

Those are groundhogs. Good video, left a like

@video-tourist 9 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@GamalKevin 7 жыл бұрын

_"Mmmh. So good"_

@aaronjay4896 6 жыл бұрын

I think I want a mole as a pet now

@BackYardFiles 7 жыл бұрын

Holy Moly

@MelonB0mbAKA 2 ай бұрын

Moles are SO CUTE

@maninspired 10 жыл бұрын

Love it.

@basstion4146 6 жыл бұрын

My grandpa worked at the university of Massachusetts

@iWearCapeIRL 7 жыл бұрын

What if you are a mole and you suffer from claustrophobia?

@trevgev256 Жыл бұрын

They sign up for DBT (Digging & Burial Therapy)

@Aditya-wg3lp 10 ай бұрын

They will make a union for claustrophobic moles

@LunaGirl196 4 жыл бұрын

As someone who’s owned a hedgehog, mole paws look like mutant hedgehog paws

@ChaosBW 3 жыл бұрын

How hard do these things bite!? I picked up one half this size with MotoGP glove and could feel the bite! No mark on the glove but it was a surprise for the size!

@pablotorres7303 7 жыл бұрын

I want one now !!! We can be gym partners and dig on chix!!!

@DirtPitRider 4 жыл бұрын

They are the cutest thing in the earth- and they are Digletts

@frato21 Ай бұрын

I think this man's a mole undercover. He just loves the taste of earthworms.

@Andreas_Mann 6 жыл бұрын

the way he said "mhm so good" makes me want to try an earthworm

@merksecution8395 7 жыл бұрын

Give him a Nobel for the 10 million dollar grant he got for this earth shattering study.

@joannedeherrera340 7 жыл бұрын

I love these. I recently moved to a different state. I have these rolling and tilling my yard. They are finding me volcanic rock's, rocks from 2,O00,000 years ago, (When this area was nothing but active Volcanic activity, and 1,000,000 million years ago when this area was lake. I found one which had some sort of fossilised fish or scorpion tail not sure. I do not know if I'm getting lucky, or the earths magnetic field is bringing them up. Either way my husband and I decided, (Let the Mole Rats dig and dig ).

@joannedeherrera340 7 жыл бұрын

We'll I'm on a large Alphalpha farm so I do not need the grass like when I lived in a city. We are using the worms for fishing, my husband went to buy some worms, over 3 Buck's per pack. The man told him if we had alot and we do that he will buy them. Found another old weat penny again and some more old silverware from who knows when. Over here these things are making money for me. Lol

@Kumahachi8 7 жыл бұрын

You should post a picture of your fossil. I'm sure someone could tell you what it is.

@joannedeherrera340 7 жыл бұрын

I hope you can see these. I spoke to a geologist, and he's the one who gave me this information. I hope someone can provide more. He wants them, and I'm not giving them away.

@Kumahachi8 7 жыл бұрын

Sorry. They're not showing up (Google is coming up with a 400 error), at least for me, anyway, and they're not actually coming up in the comment chain. If you uploaded the image elsewhere and sent us a link to the image (eg. uploading them to Puush), it might be possible to see them, but maybe the geologist will know more when he sees them. It's a shame. I like looking at fossils, but my OCD won't let me touch them. ^_^'

@joannedeherrera340 7 жыл бұрын

I'll try, let me see if I left them on twitter if not ill load them I had ocd bad, but I'm okay kind of now.

@nguyenthanhsu9135 16 күн бұрын

Adorable little one.

@Benjaminvalko 7 жыл бұрын

"mmmm" so perfectly pitched

@Orangetong 7 жыл бұрын

I always wondered this

@deenanthekemoni9821 6 жыл бұрын

Moles are beautiful creatures, theyre awesome in so many ways.. I am a human GPS behind the wheel of a car so my wife has been stupidly calling me "The Mole" whemever we drive for years now. (Unrelated, I know 😅)

@touxiong765 7 жыл бұрын

ah the mole. My arch nemesis. I've got a trap ready for you my underground foe.

@thalmoragent9344 6 жыл бұрын

tou xiong Your profile picture matches the tone of your comment surprisingly well.

@artsyscrub3226 6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Bloomfield IT DOES OMG

@amonrah250 6 жыл бұрын

If they ever did an anthropomorphic adaptation of a Zatoichi movie, that would be the mole since they have bad eyesights, but good sense of smell. Though sadly the character was already made into a bush pig (Usagi Yojimbo comics)

@leothelion2001 7 жыл бұрын

you had me at earth worms yummm

@cheesus2289 5 жыл бұрын

So good.

@Patricknotstarr 6 жыл бұрын

I had a mole infestation in my bedroom once..

@thatkyleguy1289 6 жыл бұрын

Holy moly!!!

@0ki7o 7 жыл бұрын

A Mole is a unit of force that is exerted by a mol of moles.

@andreww1212 4 жыл бұрын

He's missing his hard hat and sunglasses. :D

@mczjezzle983 7 жыл бұрын

"mmmmh so good" lol

@jasonblahamartialautist4190 7 жыл бұрын

So if you say a mole can swim through land, it's not a Chuck Norris joke.

@frau4bzna 4 жыл бұрын

I used to feed a stray cat. One day it put one of these on my doorstep (still somewhat alive and not bleeding). I had no idea what it was. I'd never seen one before.

@vladislavkrotikov8538 7 жыл бұрын

MMMM.... SO GOOD!

@kiwi7866 7 жыл бұрын

Does the dirt or mud, stick to the moles fur. They always seem to look very clean, for a animal that spends its life digging through dirt. I know this one is in a laboratory....but even when you see people catching them in the wild. They still look clean.

@renovatiovr 6 жыл бұрын

kiwi that's a very good question. Even their paws look clean

@woofii4323 6 жыл бұрын

I've saved a mole from a cat once. Their fur is really thick and seems to protect them from getting dirty. 🤔

@lepo8861 6 жыл бұрын

Velvet fur. Maybe their like ducks. They repel dirt

@artsyscrub3226 6 жыл бұрын

Their fur repels dirt. I assume thet clean frequently.

@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 2 жыл бұрын

Every part of their anatomy evolved for life underground. Including their extremely fine fur which dirt falls off of easily.

@GabHowDoI 6 жыл бұрын

How hard does mole dig? Me: harder than my excavator i supposed

@candices7971 6 жыл бұрын

i guess we can say they go hard

@lucass880 7 жыл бұрын

1:17 when you arrive home and get some nasty cereals

@era9402 4 жыл бұрын

it’s two am and i can’t stop watching mole videos send help

@srt2284 7 жыл бұрын

Some one NEEDS to make a meme of him saying "mmmmmm". LMAO

@picklevoncrunchnmunch7946 5 жыл бұрын

that mole may dig hard, but can he jig hard?

@bernardoriper5127 6 жыл бұрын

so good

@knoxie9627 6 жыл бұрын

It is so cuteeeeeeee❤💕❤❤💕❤💕

@TreasureByMeasure 7 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's cool

@IGotCraZLegs 7 жыл бұрын

awesome

@stuartkimpton7248 Жыл бұрын

"swim" Lol😆

@kennadarat4881 6 жыл бұрын

I love moles! They are adorable!!!!!!!!!1!!!

@strahinjabosnjak8911 6 жыл бұрын

Intresting

@foreverfuturebound 3 жыл бұрын

moles are so cute

@NikhilYadav-mj6wj 6 жыл бұрын

What a weird looking cat.

@bobdole7451 2 ай бұрын

Im going to create an earthworm protein shake!

@darkptionleft5116 7 жыл бұрын

*///DAM, THOSE WORMS LOOK TASTY///*

@user-wx5ym6pj7q Жыл бұрын

Bloody roar 2's character - bakaryu bring me here , because I was a curious how a mole looks like in real life.

@phillipboyette5609 6 жыл бұрын

They’re amazing animal!

@ElenaKomleva 8 ай бұрын

How come they don't suffocate underground is another good question!

@ajay8659 Ай бұрын

Don't underestimate humans, Its not "Mole" but its "The Underminer" from film The Incredibles 😂🎉

@artsyscrub3226 6 жыл бұрын

Moles are cute when they arent tree legged and invading your home.

@tobiaskrist8641 6 жыл бұрын

*Mmmm so good*

@byronr4681 3 ай бұрын

At this point youtube knows I'll watch anything

@wparo 7 жыл бұрын

what good does a mole do for nature? they must have a purpose

@BecksCreations 7 жыл бұрын

They help aerate the soil from the tunnels they create, and keep the grubs, worms, and other insects in check. :)

@jeffjones6951 6 жыл бұрын

LIFE has 2 functions: 1. Utilize energy, 2. Host & pass along genes. Whether these functions create PURPOSE, i can't say

@Polyglot_English 3 жыл бұрын

Life has no purpose

@dirty_hairy9040 3 жыл бұрын

What does a human do for nature?

@moleman3708 2 жыл бұрын

what good does a human do for nature? they must have a purpose. Yeah let’s see how you feel after that, surface dweller.

@schtinky1151 6 жыл бұрын

Moles got such cute patty feets. I love em. I once caught a vole with my hands. He was a pain to get, but I got em while I was gardening. Thank Jesus I had gloves cuz it tried to bite me. They got really strong jaws for being such a little boober.

@wulfw.8452 6 жыл бұрын

earth worm Jim: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo